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The Year’s Best Films: Changes in Perspective—And Heroes

From left: Keith Kupferer as Dan in Ghostlight, Ethan Herisse as Elwood in Nickel Boys, and Julianne Nicholson as Janet in Janet Planet.  Luke...

24.12.2024 5

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Oliver Jones

‘Nickel Boys’ Is an Experiential Masterpiece—And One of The Year’s Best Films

Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in Nickel Boys. Courtesy of Orion Pictures A salamander crawling on your hand. A jacket from the dry cleaner...

12.12.2024 4

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‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: Stained By Blood, Haunted By History

The first time I watched The Piano Lesson was in a glorious, well-appointed screening room within Netflix’s main Hollywood campus. During a scene...

25.11.2024 5

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‘Heretic’ Does the Impossible—Makes Hugh Grant Boring

Since he first popped and fopped into our moviegoing lives in the late ’80s, Hugh Grant has been charming, cloying, hilariously funny and...

13.11.2024 1

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‘A Real Pain’ Review: Heartfelt, Full of Pain, Laced With Humor and Remarkable

The Jewish tradition of placing stones on the grave markers of the deceased as a form of respect and remembrance becomes a central animating force...

30.10.2024 1

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‘Conclave’ Review: Papal Succession As a Mystery Thriller

Ralph Fiennes has always done his best work under great constraints. Whether it’s the silly costumes and miniaturist specificity of Wes Anderson,...

23.10.2024 10

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‘We Live In Time’ Review: Great Moments Don’t Add Up a Great Film

Time is cracked open gracefully then gently whipped in director John Crowley’s wannabe weeper  We Live in Time —much in the manner that the...

11.10.2024 1

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‘Saturday Night’ Review: Not Live, Not Funny, Not Much

The nostalgia is so thick in Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s furiously busy paean to the nascent days of SNL, so unrelenting and potent, that...

08.10.2024 20

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‘Hold Your Breath’ Review: New Horror Movie Full Of Old Scares

Clapboards slam and crack like thunder. The weathervane creaks like a listing warship. When the wind, heavy with unceasing dust, whooshes, rumbles...

02.10.2024 7

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‘Daughters’ Review: Sundance Award Winning Doc Explores Incarceration and Family

When we first meet Aubrey, she’s five years old; the purple beads in her braids glow in the light from her fish tank as she brags about her math...

19.08.2024 2

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‘Touch’ Review: Memory, Mystery and Lost Love Remind Us What It Is to Be Human

Seventy-one is as good a time as any for your first tattoo. Or so figures the soft-spoken and deliberate Kristófer, a widower visiting London from...

12.07.2024 1

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